Hi there.
First of all, let me say that I’m normally a very happy user of the free version of Avast. Lately though, I’ve been noticing some strange things.
I like to watch streams on twitch.tv, and I often watch videos on the internet. The webshield though, seems to be blocking this, well some of it. I cant watch Twitch.tv without it making it reloading the stream constantly. I can without problems watch YouTube videoes and stuff like that, but I cant watch the videoes on my local news site.
Everything works perfectly, as soon as I disable the Webshield. I’m using Windows 8.1 and Google Chrome.
Can you help me?
It’s possible these blocks are legitimate and are now detected because you are now running Avast! 2014, whereas version 8.0 was not able to detect or see these threats.
Maybe something one might think about a bit before disabling WebShield?
Links to these sites are welcome, and I will investigate each of them for possible site malware for you.
If you post a link, please make them as hxxp:// and not http:// so they are not a live connective link for unaware users to prevent any possible infection to them. Doing it this way will prevent any possible harm coming to other users here.
Screenshots of the warning pop-ups will help also.
Many streaming sources though using http ports, don’t strictly use HTTP protocol, this can mess up the web shield as it is expecting HTTP protocol.
Is there a particular area of twitch.tv that you have problems with ?
I just checked access and was watching the 24hr Battlefield Stream for a while without any issue.
hxxp://www.twitch.tv and hxxp://www.ekstrabladet.dk
I do NOT get any warning pop-ups. On ekstrabladet.dk - it just shows a black screen where the video should be. On Twitch.tv - it just keeps reloading the stream. Shows the stream for 3 seconds or so, and reloads again. No warnings whatsoever.
Whilst this might seem strange as it doesn’t relate to the web shield, I just wonder if it could have an effect.
With the web shield enabled - Try disabling the ‘avast! online security’ plugin in Chrome and see if that makes a difference.
Sorry I can’t tell you where to do this in Chrome as I don’t use it.
Whilst you are here, you could try connecting to the twitch.tv site and see if the streams are working for you with Chrome, Web Shield and ‘avast! online security’ enabled. I suspect that there may be more to this than the Chrome, Web Shield and ‘avast! online security’ combo.
Possible iffy add-ons or rogue toolbars present in your browsers? Browsers clean? Neither DavidR or Eddy are reporting issues.
Only thing showing is a redirection for ekstrabladet in zulu and a minor elevation in risk in zulu Netblock size. Otherwise everything looks normal from here.
twitch.tv works great here! Chrome w/AOS enabled and Firefox w/AOS enabled.
As far as the web shield goes I never disable it. All shields up and always running.
Had to register to come and announce I have the exact same problem.
All twitch streams reload every few minutes for me. Downloading certain (100% trusted and legit) files stop downloading completely, I have to pause and resume the downloads to get them to start again.
Everything works 100% perfectly without webshield.
Using Firefox v24 on Windows 7 Home x64 (tested all this stuff without the online security plugin, no effect. Only Avast WebShield makes everything reload).
Its really really weird, that it works fine for you guys.
I’ve tried to disable every addon I got. AddBlock, Evernote and Tampermoney. That dosent help, until I disable the Webshield through Avast. I dont even have the Chrome avast addon installed…
Are your browsers really clean? Any unusual behavior in any of them? avast! could be detecting something in your browser(s). Reason I say that is because I’ve no problem and neither does DavidR or Eddy, and pretty sure we each take the time to ensure our browsers are clean and operating the way they should.
I also make it a point to never disable real-time protection just to visit a favorite site just because it gets blocked, so… I investigate the site itself to see if there are, in fact, reasons why blocks/di(s)connects are happening and then notify the site owner of such if the blocks are true and valid. Might also want to try a clean, fresh install of adobe first, to see if that is really your issue.
